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Title: Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand
Growth
Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/...
Air conditioning will contribute more to rising global energy demand than
data centers through 2030, according to an International Energy Agency. While
attention has focused on computing power consumption, the IEA projects data
centers will account for less than 10% of increased energy demand by 2030,
significantly less than space cooling requirements. Global cooling degree
days, a measure of air conditioning need, were 6% higher in 2024 than 2023
and 20% above the long-term average for the first two decades of the century.
China, India and the United States saw particularly sharp increases. Air
conditioning represented 7% of global electricity consumption in 2022, with
some U.S. regions reporting that cooling can comprise over 70% of residential
energy use during peak periods. The number of air conditioning units
worldwide could nearly triple from fewer than 2 billion in 2016 to
approximately 6 billion by 2050, creating a growing challenge for power
grids.
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